There was an earlier post purportedly from a Venezuelan cop in their equivalent of the FBI. He said the gangs had weapons that the army didn’t have. Presumably shoulder fired anti-tank rounds that would make short work of that lightly armored car. Apparently, this vehicle wasn’t expecting to be confronted by gangs and is probably “enforcing” a curfew for the civilians. (That would be one serous curfew.) It also indicates the government has adopted a bunker mentality if they’ll shoot unarmed civilians.
But as long as they’re not going after well-armed gangs, they can run around all night in perfect safety as the civilians apparently don’t even have .38 revolvers. What bothers me about our local sheriff’s having MRAPS is they really only have this one use in the civilian world. The local sheriff used an armored car and twelve machinegun toting SWAT troops to attack a single-wide trailer I’d rented to an elderly ill and mostly drunk couple. I’m grateful they just knocked down my $500 front door to go after these unarmed elderly people and that they didn’t drive the armored car into the middle of the structure too.
Just a question here. Zackly how do you put a $500 front door on a single wide?
they didn’t drive the armored car into the middle of the structure
All that training down the drain, you just can’t get
qualified personel nowadays.